Local News

A Brown Ambulance Service driver continues to recover at home following a collision last Thursday night in Lexington.

April Claypool, 22, was driving the Harrison County ambulance carrying a patient around 11 p.m., when a white 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by Charles Brown, 30, of Versailles, hit the passenger side of the ambulance at the intersection of Broadway and New Circle Road in Lexington.

According to Lexington-Police Public Information Officer Sherell Roberts, Brown told police he did not see or hear the ambulance.

The Cynthiana Democrat is welcoming a summer intern who will be spending 10 weeks at the newspaper shadowing news and editorial staffers.

Mary Barczak, 20, of Richwood in Boone County, started this week and is looking forward to covering the news.

Barczak is a Western Kentucky University junior, whose primary interest is in feature writing. She serves as the city editor of the award-winning college publication, The College Heights Herald, and is looking for a career as a backpack journalist.

The doors of Journey Medical Mission opened for the first time last Thursday evening and when those same doors closed later that evening, 14 Harrison County residents had received free medical treatment.

“It was absolutely wonderful,” said clinic coordinator Jane Whitehead about the clinic’s first night. “Everyone was so grateful...”

Whitehead said the evening was booked with appointments before the clinic even officially opened.

The Northside Elementary School PTO officer who was previously charged with the theft of $10,000 from the organization’s funds, entered an Alford guilty plea to the 10 felony charges against her.

Stacy Harney, 41, was indicted in March and charged with felony theft by unlawful taking and nine counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument following an investigation by the Kentucky State Police.

An Indiana woman is in fair condition at UK Chandler Hospital following a Thursday afternoon wreck in northern Harrison County.

Nancy Hall, 70, was a passenger in the antique Austin Healy car driven by her husband, Thomas Hall, 72, when the vehicle left the roadway and flipped on the side of US 27 North.

Sheriff’s deputy Nathan Olin said the couple was among several classic cars traveling in a line southbound on their way to a car show in Lebanon, Ky., when the vehicle in front of the Halls slowed down for a funeral procession coming northbound.